The Chronicle

Chapter IV — The Sand

The tunnel opens onto raked sand and banked, empty stands. Doctore Sabra is waiting, and she does not care yet whether you can fight.

A prototype — not the Towne itself

The Chronicle is a separate game built to teach how BellusTowne works and to show what is coming. Nothing you do here changes anything in BellusTowne — no Standing, no Deeds, no coin, no rank, no record. Your progress lives only in this browser.

The Law of the Sand

Read the Law cut into the lintel above the tunnel mouth (✶), article by article.

The sand is being raked…

Where you stand

The Coliseum floor. The Law (✶) is cut above the tunnel, the centre mark (O) lies at the middle of the sand, the armourer's bench west, the ranked boards east.

The keepers

Six keep this house: the Doctore, the Sandkeeper, the Reckoner, the Physician, the Crowdward, and the Keeper of Laurels. Between them they hold the whole of how a contest is kept honest.

Codex:

The one rule

No purse raises a rung. Patrons dress you; bouts rank you. The crown is held for a year and given back on Bellus Day.

The tunnel at the south (▼) returns you to the Gatehouse.

Strength & Solidarity LLC dragon-shield emblem
Hearthsong silent